Lakeshore Records has released Joan—
Original Series Soundtrack digitally, featuring music by BAFTA winning composer Harry Escott (Roadkill, Shame).The score is at once a vividly emotive backdrop to the tensions of the characters in the crime drama, yet also matches the bright 80’s pop vibes dropped throughout the series set in the 1980’s. The soundtrack also features the exclusive release of the original song “Glittergirl,” written for the end credits and featuring Rina Mushonga. Joan concluded on the CW and can be streamed in its entirety at CWTV.com and on the CW app.
Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, The Staircase) stars as notorious jewel thief Joan Hannington in this exhilarating yet emotional story set against the vibrant backdrop of the 1980s — an era known for its bold fashion trends, iconic music and cultural shifts. The show is directed by Richard Laxton (Rain Dogs, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, Mrs. Wilson), written by Anna Symon (Mrs. Lowry & Son, The Essex Serpent and Mrs. Wilson), and executive produced by Ruth Kenley-Letts (Stonehouse, The Midwich Cuckoos, C.B. Strike), for Snowed-In Productions.
Notes Escott: “The sound of the score needed to fit with the brightly coloured 80s pop songs that pepper the series and it had to provide the energy and thrill we all expect from a caper but, the underpinning emotion for all of it needed to be much heavier.
I knew I would have to lean on the talents of others in the studio to help realise this score and I was lucky to work with some of the best musicians and engineers around. They really gave it their all and I think it shows; the score is full of soul and personality and I hope that comes across. Happy listening!”
Purchase/ Stream: https://lnk.to/joan-ost
Track List
- Kelly
- Redhead Magpie
- Don’t Trust Me
- Move In With Me
- Thank You For Being
- Gulp
- You Don’t Care
- Bernard’s Tango
- To Work
- Scratchy Jumpers
- I’ll Be Fine
- Caravan Of Truth
- Red Button Car Thief
- In Love With Roxie
- Looking Good Joanie
- Going Straight
- Spit It Out
- Joan And Boisie
- Glittergirl (feat. Rina Mushonga)
ABOUT HARRY ESCOTT
Harry Escott is a composer with a rich history of creative collaboration across the arts. His impressive array of film scoring credits include Hard Candy, Shifty, Steve McQueen’s Shame, several films for Michael Winterbottom, including A Mighty Heart, Road to Guantanamo, and, most recently, Greed. He is also a frequent collaborator with Clio Barnard, having scored all of her films since they worked together on her groundbreaking debut feature, The Arbor – last year he won the BIFA for his score to her film Ali & Ava.
For television, Harry won a BAFTA for his music to the BBC drama Roadkill, and an RTS award for his score to Uprising– the BAFTA winning three film series directed by Steve McQueen and James Rogan. His recent scores for television include the drama series The Thief, His Wife & The Canoe for which he received an Ivor Novello Award nomination for Best television Soundtrack, and most recently ITV’s Joan starring Sophie Turner.
Away from the screen, recent works include collaborations with PJ Harvey to write the single “An Acre Of Land”, the poet Lavinia Greenlaw, for her sound installation, ‘Audio Obscura’ (which won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry) and Ora Singers, who commissioned Harry to write “O Light Of Light”, a reflection on Tallis’ O Nata Lux.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Fallout, John Wick, Whiplash, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Drive, Cyberpunk 2077 / Edgerunners, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Red Dead Redemption 2, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
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